Geographic Orientation/California
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Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
$24.99 Add to cartIn recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Lipsky, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0738531383
- Language: English
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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T
$35.99 Add to cartHoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider’s keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told.
–Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, R… [more below]- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0471732737
- Language: English
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Within These Lines
$17.99 Add to cart“Within These Lines is a moving story of love, hope, and family set against the dark history of Japanese internment in America. This book had me captivated ” –Maureen McQuerry, YALSA award-winning au
- Author: Morrill, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0310765234
- Language: English
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The Best Guide Ever to Palm Springs Celebrity Homes: Facts and Legends of the Village of Palm Springs
$24.95 Add to cart600+ Palm Springs Celebrity Homes, Including: Lucille Ball, Johnny Bench, Ray Bradbury, Sonny Bono, Cher, Tony Curtis, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Walt Disney, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Gerald For… [more below]
- Author: Meeks, Eric G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0986218901
- Language: English
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Woodland
$31.99 Add to cartThe images in this book document the intertwining of country and city in the character of Woodland, California, since the town’s birth in 1853. The flat, rich land of the Great Central Valley, along w… [more below]
- Author: Datel, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: January 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1531659837
- Language: English
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Canyon Lake
$31.99 Add to cartCanyon Lake lies on the western edge of Menifee Valley, between Sun City and Lake Elsinore, and is both a private gated community and an incorporated city with a population approaching 10,000. This is… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Elinor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 07 2007
- ISBN10: 1531628710
- Language: English
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Growing Up in San Francisco: More Boomer Memories from Playland to Candlestick Park
$21.99 Add to cartNewcomers and visitors can still enjoy iconic San Francisco with activities like riding a cable car or taking in the view from Twin Peaks. But San Franciscans cherish memories of a place quite differe… [more below]
- Series: American Chronicles
- Author: Dunnigan, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135704
- Language: English
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West of Eden: An American Place
$23.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her ground- Author: Stein, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0812987934
- Language: English
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Hollywood High: Put Your Diamonds Up
$16.00 Add to cartExplosive rumors and a mega-media frenzy almost ended the Pampered Princesses’ reign as Hollywood High royalty. Now only one diva can win the ultimate fame of thrones… London Phillips is keeping her… [more below]
- Series: Hollywood High #3
- Author: Simone, Ni-Ni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0758288522
- Language: English
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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Coastal Gardening in the Pacific Northwest: From Northern California to British Columbia
$22.95 Add to cartCoastal Gardening. It has challenges that no other type of gardening can boast: Salt, wind, and sand to name a few. This book combines necessary information about Pacific Northwest coastal gardening a… [more below]
- Author: Albright, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 28 2007
- ISBN10: 158979317X
- Language: English
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Dry
$21.99 Add to cartWhen the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestsellin… [more below]
- Author: Shusterman, Neal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1481481967
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$18.99 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Top Trails: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks: 64 Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
$24.95 Add to cartThis guide describes the best sights of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in 64 must-do hikes, including those through the Giant Forest, to picturesque lakes, and to the summit of Mount Whitney.
- Series: Top Trails
- Author: White, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0899978053
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
$21.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Coverd Wagon Women #2
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 1996
- ISBN10: 080327274X
- Language: English
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Homeland
$20.99 Add to cartIn Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco–an experience th
- Series: Little Brother #2
- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0765333708
- Language: English
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Early Warner Bros. Studios
$24.99 Read moreSince 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Stephens, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0738580910
- Language: English
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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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My First Summer in the Sierra
$18.00 Add to cartFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of … [more below]
- Series: Classic, Nature, Penguin
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 1987
- ISBN10: 0140255702
- Language: English
